Sentence examples for worked to rise from inspiring English sources

When the incredible Jones uses the word "nigger," to describe his boyhood self, you can feel how hard Big Daddy has worked to rise above all epithets to become himself.

Then read this feature by Russell Shorto, "The Way Greeks Live Now", looking for examples in which people work to rise above adversity.

There are a whole lot of barriers that impact on each of us individually, but you work to rise above those.

Poland is the only case of an EU country working to rise to the challenges of the real world, but without strong joint European leadership it can only rely on its senior transatlantic partner.

Instead of pulling each other down and pointing out flaws, we should work to rise up together.

Mr. Saatchi is also known for buying and selling the work of young artists in bulk, causing the prices of their other works to rise quickly when he buys and fall as quickly when he sells.

They've both depended on raw talent and hard work to rise to positions of prominence.

"All the Light We Cannot See" is a World War II novel about children, the kind of undertaking that requires a lot of work to rise above emotional manipulation.

These policies started to change at the end of the 1930s, however, and hours worked began to rise.

It got me thinking about a Dutch hydraulic engineer, albeit a fictional one, who quietly works to manage rising sea levels in the near future.

In June, ConAgra was also working to offset rising raw material costs thanks to continued volatility in the commodities markets.